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Cinco de Mayo is coming soon, and once again the holiday presents opportunities to leverage countless cross-merchandising combinations and point-of-sale material.

Cinco de Mayo is coming soon, and once again the holiday presents opportunities to leverage countless cross-merchandising combinations and point-of-sale material.

Cinco de Mayo is coming soon, and once again the holiday presents opportunities to leverage countless cross-merchandising combinations and point-of-sale material.

Produce retail’s winning streak against year-ago sales numbers continued in February, with the category bringing in $5.3 billion, up 10.1% from 2020.

New York City-based vertical grower Bowery Farming has placed its products in 275 Safeway and Acme stores in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic.

Cinco de Mayo is coming soon, and once again the holiday presents opportunities to leverage countless cross-merchandising combinations and point-of-sale material.

Pan Pacific International Holdings, which owns more than 600 stores globally, has announced an agreement to acquire high-end California chain Gelson’s from TPG Capital.

Catch up on some of the big topics in the produce industry this week with our latest episode of Packer Insight with editor-in-chief Tom Karst, Northeast editor Amy Sowder and retail editor Ashley Nickle.

Avocados and mangoes are a couple of the top produce items for Cinco de Mayo, and suppliers expect demand to be strong despite different consumer patterns than previous years.

Imagine being a farmer or farm worker and working throughout this pandemic to supply a continuous supply of safe and healthy fruits and vegetables, only to have an activist group refer to those products as “dirty.”